Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-09-16
BRIEFS.

take place next Tuesday evening. We
tender our congratulations In advance
to Mr.. Campbell.
The Entler Hotel, under the manage
ment of Mr.. j. n. Trussell, is now fur
nished throughout and fully prepared
for business. The travelling public may
feel assured that the hotel is now in
first-class hands, and that excellent en-
tertainment will be afforded all.
An interesting speech will be found
on our first page this week. 1t is the
one recently delivered by Hon. A. R.
Boteler before the American Shipping
League Convention at Washington, and
its subject is James Rumsey, of Shep-
herdstown, the inventor of the steam:
boat.
George A. Bowers, machinist, en-
ployed in the Baltimore and Ohio Rail.
road shops at Martinsburg, had two Of
his fingers painfully lacerated the other
day. To prevent the hand from being
lacerated, he pulled his fingers from the
machine, drawing out six inches of the
sinew.
Rev. DR.. Peyton Harrison, well-known
in Virginia and Maryland as Presby-
terrain minister, died on Saturday at his
residence in Baltimore, aged 81 years.
He was native of Lexington, where
he will be buried. For a number Of
years he lived as retired citizen Of
Baltimore.
We have received copy of the Lynch
burg (Va.) Daily Adpance, which con-
tains an interesting letter from Master
Albert Licklider descriptive of Pen-Mar
and its surroundings. The letter is
quite well written, considering the
youth of the author. Our lack of space
prevents us from publishing it.
At an election in Sharpsburg for mu-
nicipal officers last week the following
persons were successful: Thomas Mon
gan, burgess; Josiah Staubs, assistant
burgess; Josephus Renner, Robert w.
Grove, John Benner, John V. Myers
and Samuel Show, commissioners. 1t is
said the officers elected are all Knights
of Labor.
An unknown tramp was killed on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near Van
clevesville, Saturday last. In attempt
ing to get out Of the way of one train he
got in the way of another, which threw
him down an enbankment, against a
fence with such force as to break all the
bones OH the one side of his body
Nartinsburg Independent.
Frank Rhodes, resident Of Martins
burg, while working upon the new iron
bridge which the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company is having built over
the Monocacy river at Frederick juno
ton, slipped and fell a distance of fifteen
feet, receiving severe injuries about the
head, which resulted in conclusion of
the BRAIN ana nemOrrnaSe.
Here's a pretty good fish story from
Woodstock, Va: GA gentleman who
shot with a rifle the other day in the
Shenandoah river what he thought was
an otter, was surprised to find he had
killed a fish which weighed twenty
pounds and measured three feet ten
inches in length. 1t was a salmon, the
first found In these waters"
Mr.. j. F. Legge, who for some time
past has been the general agent at
Washington for the Baltimore Il Ohio
Railroad, has been transferred TO Grail
ton, w. Va, the order taking effect on
the 18th instant. His successor is
voune man named William Alvey.
Washingtonians regret the departure o.
Mr.. Legge, who was very popular at
that place.
The northern bound passenger train
on The valley division of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad jumped the track at
Timberville on Saturday. The tender,
express, postal and baggage car were
thrown from the track, and part of the
smoker was derailed. The other pas
senger cars, as well az the engine, re-
main ed on the track. No person was
hurt.
The Hagerstown Globe is responsible
for the following: Mr.. Geo. d. Ash,
tenant on the Geo. Cambria farm,
short distance from town, on the Lei
tersburg pike, is engaged in quarrying
stone on the farm, using dynamite for
this purpose. A steer belonging to Mr..
Ash strayed into the quarry and, find
ing dynamite cartridge, ate it. The
dynamite proved unwholesome diet, ex-
ploding and bursting the animal and re-
sulting in its death.
Our talented young friend, the editor
of the WilliamspOrt Transcript, Will
soon be twenty-one years old, and Will
cast his first vote at the approaching
election. In this connection he uses
language like this: reference to this
matter is not accompanied by any
mercenary thoughts or anticipations;
we simply experience that exuberance
of feeling" &C. Mr.. Richard may be
young, but he is acquainted with some
mighty big words.
Recently Mrs. Susan Martin, residing
ir Pleasant Valley, near Weverton, Nd,
trimmed a corn on the little toe OF one
of her feet, causing it to bleed, as she
had frequently done before. She gave
the matter no especial concefn, for this
reason, never having experienced any
incony enence as to the result of The
bleeding. In this instance, however,
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